I know people are forever looking for free webspace for their sites, or simply a place to host pictures. 1 and 1 is an established company trying to break into small business/home hosting. They are offering 3 years of service for FREE is you sign up before Jan 21st.
This is a c&p from a letter:
Before launching their full range of products in early 2004, 1&1 Internet is offering a unique pre-launch promotion. Sign up today and you'll enjoy the fully featured Professional Package FREE for 3 years!
1&1 is the world's #1 web host, with over 2.5 million customers. They have industry leading connectivity & Data Centers, cutting edge features like the latest all-inclusive e-commerce & CRM, and a superb support team.

Here are the details:
Website/Connectivity:

* Hosted on I/O optimized own 1&1 Linux version
* 500 MB web space
* 5,000 MB/month traffic ($.99 per GB for additional traffic)
* No limits on simultaneous hits/bandwidth
* Protected by firewall
* Daily backups of your website
* 99.9% Uptime guarantee


Website features:

* Advanced live site statistics, log files, ready-to-run CGI-library, own CGI programming (Perl, Python), FrontPage 2002 extensions
* Advanced Password Protection
* 5 FTP accounts
* PHP3 & PHP4
* MySQL
* Proxy SSL Secure Server
* Cron Jobs
* SSH Secure Shell Access
* Advanced Developer Tools

CRM/E-commerce:

* WebElements
* Newsletter Tool
* One-on-one online dialogue
* Turn-key web database applications
* Chats
* Forums

Domain names:

* Register or transfer .com/.net/.org/.info for just $5.99/year
* 50 subdomains (e.g., shop.yourDomain.com)
* Point up to 100 external domain names to 1&1

Applications:

* Free template loaded online WebsiteCreator
* Free full version of Fusion 7, search engine registration, ranking, optimization
* Total software worth $300
* 1&1 Control Panel

E-mail handling:

* 50 POP3 e-mail accounts (50 MB each)
* Catch-all e-mail addresses
* Auto-responders, unlimited forwarding.
* 1&1 Advanced WebMail
* Symantec virus scanner

Support:

* 1&1 Express support by e-mail

DH is a member of several "geek" sites, and they have all poured over the fine print, and there really isn't a catch. Daomin registration is also SUPER cheap through them-- 5.99 I believe. I f you want to just use the space for pics and such, you don't even have to register a domain-- they assign one to you. If you want to use it just to host pics and such, I reccomend downloading a program like ftp commander to upload your pics. It is free and easy to use :)
If you need help setting things up, or have questions (or need some web design done ;) ) lmk!
heather

edited to add link :) www.1and1.com Also I haven't had any problems at all with them.. no downtime. etc. Anyway, I hope this helps someone!

WHOA~ I need something cheaper than what I am using (picturetrail) and that has more space. Thanks! :D

Wait...do u have the web address?

www.1and1.com

I use them and so far I've not had any problems. :D

link please:D :D

Okay, this is the second time today I have seen this (well 3 times if I count your reply to my other post, Heather! LOL).

So, who's used it? I think Teddy might have mentioned that their cpanel is a little slow to load? Or was that something else? Nonetheless, I'm looking into it.

Thanks Heather!!!

I've been using them for about 2 months with no problems at all!

i have used it, even on a few sites I have designed. Their control panel was a little slow for me one day, but it was 2 days after it was posted on a LOT of "geek" boards, so I imagine the traffic was insane. Oh and by slow I mean 30 secs MAYBE (I have a cable modem). Since then I haven't had any trouble, and hey, its free, so I figure what can it hurt to sign up for the space... it is nice to have extra webspace to use for whatever.. and who knows what I will want to do with it in three years :)

heather

Well, I don't get it. I signed up and then waited for them to call to give me my PIN and it never happened. So then I emailed them telling them that I never got my pin because they kept emailing me reminding me to use it, but I never got it. So then they emailed me a link to do it all over again, so I did and once again they never called to give me my PIN so I emailed them to let them know and never heard another thing again. :(

I signed up last time this was posted, have been real happy with it. I bought a domain name too, so far it has been very easy to use. :)